An ant is not the size of a man. Yet can a man with no eyes build a maze? A man is not the size of an ant. Yet can an ant build, for example, an automobile factory, or a yurt? I read these things in a book.

Minister, Christian broadcaster, and person who is still alive Pat Robertson is an expert on the methods by which demons possess humans: Specifically, horror movies and (maybe) porn.

The Veronica Mars movie is out today. It's a strange thing to talk about. Every piece about it, including this one apparently, must talk about how it only happened because fans of the original Veronica Mars television show went on Kickstarter and supported it. So it was never designed to be an independent cultural product. The chief imperative was to Give the Fans What They Want.

On Friday, Young Lee, a co-founder of frozen yogurt company Pinkberry, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for beating a homeless man with a tire iron.

[Election commission workers prepare for a referendum at a polling station in Crimea, Ukraine, on Friday. Crimea plans to hold a referendum on Sunday that will ask residents if they want the territory to become part of Russia. Image via Andrew Lubimov/AP.]

Bill Gates is a technocrat. A very, very rich technocrat. His charity work will probably save millions of lives. But, as a new interview with him reveals, he's really not much of a progressive at all.

What does T H E F U T U R E hold for us? If we are lucky, it holds unspeakably horrible new punishment technology. Aeon Magazine explores the future of jailing:

The latest arrival at San Diego Zoo Safari Park is a healthy newborn gorilla delivered through caesarian section. The procedure is rare for animal births, but in this case, it was an emergency.

[Indian Hindu widows play with colored water for the first time as part of Holi celebrations organized by a non-governmental organization Sulabh in Vrindavan, India, on Friday. After their husbands' deaths the women were banished by their families for supposedly bringing bad luck, to the town where devotees believe Lord Krishna was born. Image via Manish Swarup/AP.]

A teenage father has been arrested for allegedly biting off the nose of his infant son, causing a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage.

Thursday night, a restaurant worker stabbed his boss to death for posting his picture online earlier this month.

It's not just America suffering from levels of economic inequality that threaten the very fabric of society. It's the whole world. So the rich need to pay the piper. That is the considered opinion of the International Monetary Fund, which is not a revolutionary organization.

Jimmy Kimmel pulled a Jimmy Kimmel on hipster South by Southwest Music Festival attendees, sending a reporter out to ask them what they thought about some really obscure bands you probably haven't heard of. Because they don't exist.

Happy Pi Day! Sweet potato is the best kind.

When we last left the 40-year-old British man with a severed penis, he was in a hospital-induced coma while police searched the roadside for his missing organ. This morning, the plot thickened significantly.

[A child plays soccer in front a mural of Pope Francis at the 1-11-14 slum in Buenos Aires on Thursday. On the first anniversary of his election, people from the slum gathered to attend a mass given in his honor and to watch an interview he gave recently to FM Bajo Flores, a community radio station. Image via Natacha Pisarenko/AP.]

The words "gay rapper" generally precede Le1f's name, because he is, in fact, a gay rapper and that's a rare thing. It's also a courageous thing, given how underrepresented LGBT people are in hip-hop and hip-hop's own fraught relationship with gayness.

Teenagers whining about getting out of bed for school in the morning are actually on to something. High school start times are an outrageous burden. For the grownups, most of all.

A Los Angeles man who wanted to be Twitter-famous got what he asked for, along with a charge for making criminal threats.

Early Thursday morning, a man shot and killed a 17-year-old boy that he caught in his teenage daughter's bed.